Lohrenswald
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Then it's good that your question wasn't a "is it this or that" type question
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Lohrenswald
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It was a yes or no question
anyway I think I won't be overrating calling this the worst week of my life (probably except when my grandmother died, but I've forgotten most from that time).
I feel terrible, I haven't gotten anything done, and by friday I'll fail a subject
anyway I think I won't be overrating calling this the worst week of my life (probably except when my grandmother died, but I've forgotten most from that time).
I feel terrible, I haven't gotten anything done, and by friday I'll fail a subject
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For those of you who are bothered, here's the question again. (Seriously, you must have something more interesting to be interested in.)
And here's another one:
Would you answer "yes" or "no" to the question?
Spoiler :
Not really. I mean, I want to do it, but at the same time I feel like an idiot talking into the mic knowing in the back of my mind no one is listening because no one is watching my videos. I also feel like a spammy jerk when I try to direct traffic to my channel because I know how annoying I think it is when someone does that to me. So since I just can't seem to bring myself to shamelessly shove my channel in people's faces, there's pretty much a zero chance that I'll ever grow my audience.
My videos are also pretty much crap in just about every aspect and just don't have the time to improve the skills necessary to increase my production value. My video quality is terrible, my sound quality is terrible, I can't edit to save my life, and my commentary has all the personality of a corpse. So basically, I just recognized that while this is something I would love to do, it's not ever really going to go anywhere and essentially amounts to a giant waste of time.
My advice would be to do it if you want to, pure and simple. You would probably do well to have shorter videos on a regular schedule and obviously your editing skills would need to improve, but that comes with practice. Nearly all the skills I use at work I learnt on the job simply because I needed to know what to do, so editing skills (like anything else) build up as you use them. As Derek Muller of Veritasium said, when he started making science vlogs, he was really awkward and it showed, as can still be seen in his oldest videos. Commentary, like editing, comes with practice.
What's more, if you enjoy making videos and want to make them look better, you'll want to buy a new mic, maybe a new graphics cards and so on. It's just like any expensive hobby - you spend what you think you can afford to get more enjoyment out of it.
Most importantly, since you're not in it to make any money out of it for the foreseeable future, don't worry about the view count. Just do it (or not) because you want to, not because X people have or haven't seen your latest video.
What's more, if you enjoy making videos and want to make them look better, you'll want to buy a new mic, maybe a new graphics cards and so on. It's just like any expensive hobby - you spend what you think you can afford to get more enjoyment out of it.
Most importantly, since you're not in it to make any money out of it for the foreseeable future, don't worry about the view count. Just do it (or not) because you want to, not because X people have or haven't seen your latest video.
The main problem I'm having is that I am a very practical minded person. There has to be a purpose to something for me to stay motivated to continue doing it. And the purpose of YouTube videos is to be seen. So if the videos I make aren't being seen, then in my eyes the purpose for making them is gone and the practical voice in my head starts shouting at me to stop wasting my time and find something more productive to do.
The author David Eddings suggested one should to do learn how to write by writing a million words or so and then burning them. If you do that, you can't help but learn how to get better in the process. In the case of videos, presumably you still enjoy playing video games?
If so, simply shift your expectations. You said you wanted to learn how to make better commentary and do better editing, so carry on doing it, but simply don't upload them. Then no one is watching them, you have no Monster of Views waiting to disappoint you and you're still having fun making them, whilst presumably gradually getting better at the same time.
If so, simply shift your expectations. You said you wanted to learn how to make better commentary and do better editing, so carry on doing it, but simply don't upload them. Then no one is watching them, you have no Monster of Views waiting to disappoint you and you're still having fun making them, whilst presumably gradually getting better at the same time.
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Quitting my antidepressants is not going quite as easily as I'd hoped. Been on a fairly low dose recently so I was hoping just to quit cold turkey. But that resulted in slight withdrawals with next to zero sleep last night, and this morning when I got up I felt really nauseas. So I guess a slow tapering off is the way to go. Make sense I guess as I've been taking them for about a year and a half now.
gay_Aleks
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how many people watched it? you can pull it off
Four. Four people watched it.
Well, I was one of them (or rather, I listened to it, rather than watching it), so you'll only "disappoint" three other people if you make the video private.
Lohrenswald
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Also one was probably you
Actually, I was reading that YouTube will sometimes suspend the accounts of creators who watch their own videos if the video is being monetized because their system marks it as "suspicious activity".
I never watch my own videos on YouTube anyway because I have them on my computer and can just watch them through my chosen media player (VLC btw). It's what I do while waiting for the video to upload to YouTube.
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